Archive for June, 2010

Enterprise and Cloud Service Federation

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

SOA Software announced its award winning Service Manager product version 6.0. Service Manager 6.0 provides advanced virtualization, management, security, monitoring and mediation capabilities for SOA and Cloud Service, implemented using a state-of-the-art OSGi-based architecture. SOA provides the foundation for a successful transition to an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model. It delivers standards-based security, routing, mediation, monitoring, and management all thanks to SOA Software.

Service Manager 6.0 delivers:

--  Policy-based Mediation for integration with multiple platforms: Policy
    sharing and enforcement between commercial platforms becomes easier
    with Service Manager. Service Manager enforces and implements policies
    through advanced service virtualization, allowing declarative
    enterprise service federation to create relevant and consumable
    service interfaces across any platform, policy, message type and
    transport.
--  Extensible binding framework: Service Manager provides out of the box
    support for SOAP, REST and POX services with an extensible framework
    allowing customers to add other binding with ease.
--  Security Federation: Service Manager supports advanced security
    federation standards, providing enterprise-class token, authorization,
    and PKI capabilities for SOA and Cloud Services.
--  Open Architecture: Service Manager leverages an OSGi-based
    architecture providing a flexible, reliable, and high-performance
    solution for the most demanding enterprise environments.

“Enterprise Services initiatives are about more than just SOAP Web services, they need to include REST, RSS, Atom and other web 2.0 and emerging technologies, such as Cloud Computing,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. “Service Manager 6.0 provides an extensible operational governance solution that allows customers to implement and enforce uniform policies across a wide array of service types, message exchange patterns, and transports, helping ensure the security and availability of critical assets across a wide range of business initiatives.”

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Turn Your iPad Into a Web server

Monday, June 7th, 2010

A Japanese software company FreeBit recently announced “ServersMan HD,” an application that makes your iPad act like a Web server that allows documents and files to be uploaded, downloaded, and viewed on the device.

For those of you that don’t know the main way to get files on and off of the iPad is through iTunes syncing or e-mail, or by using an online service such as Google Docs that stores your files in the cloud.  The ServersMan HD  helps to prove that cloud-based storage for tablets and other mobile devices is possible!

Dave Rosenberg reports “Cloud-based anything (storage, video, etc.) for mobile devices assumes that the necessary bandwidth is available and not terribly expensive, both of which current iPhone users have suffered with at the hands of AT&T’s position as the exclusive provider of mobile services.”

I think I’m going to have to try this new software out and see how I like it.  Little cloud based applications like this will help to change everything in the world around us.  I love it!

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Sevice Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 Geared for Cloud Computing

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Microsoft Server and Tools Division President Bob Muglia talked all about Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be publicly available in July on the first day of TechEd.

Microsoft’s describes what’s new in Service Pack 1 as: “The new virtualization tools in SP1 will help Windows Server 2008 R2 users prepare for cloud computing, Remote FX provides rich 3-D graphical experience for remote users, and Dynamic Memory enables more control to adjust memory usage without sacrificing performance.”

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